Books About Prepping

Blacksmith101 · Mar 21, 2020

Lets try to make this a resource that will help people. Please provide a brief description of what the book contains and why you think it should be included. Also provide a link if at all possible so people can either find the book or at least more information about the book.

I will start it off with:

Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie
https://archive.org/details/roughing_in_bush_mf_librivox

'Roughing It In the Bush' is Susanna Moodie's account of how she coped with the harshness of life in the woods of Upper Canada, as an Englishwoman homesteading abroad. Her narrative was constructed partly as a response to the glowing falsehoods European land-agents were circulating about life in the New World. Her chronicle is frank and humorous, and was a popular sensation at the time of its publication in 1852. (Summary by Moira Fogarty)

This chronicles her struggles as a pioneer hand includes the obstacles they faced in the first half of the 19th Century and how they were overcome. Life was hard. Since it is from a women's point of view it may appeal to your wives and get them to thinking about possible futures.

aklax11 · Mar 21, 2020

One sec after is about the "end of times" but actually a wonderful read. More of a somewhat realistic story about a family and how a small town copes with the end of the world...

Melnic · Mar 21, 2020

I"ve always wanted an informative book on information one might need both in the woods or at home that gave useful information on survival assuming No Internet was available to look up the information. How to take care of health w/o medicine, how to grow things, what plants are edible and how to recognize them etc.

ToolAA · Mar 21, 2020

aklax11 said:
One sec after is about the "end of times" but actually a wonderful read. More of a somewhat realistic story about a family and how a small town copes with the end of the world...

All three books in the series were pretty good. It’s a fictional work without any real technical knowledge, but the author does a good job of bringing the problems faced by early Americans into a modern context.
For example it gives the reader some pause when you have to contemplate how you might have to function in the world, with a painful tooth abscess or replace a broken pair of prescription glasses.

aklax11 · Mar 21, 2020

ToolAA said:
All three books in the series were pretty good. It’s a fictional work without any real technical knowledge, but the author does a good job of bringing the problems faced by early Americans into a modern context.
For example it gives the reader some pause when you have to contemplate how you might have to function in the world, with a painful tooth abscess or replace a broken pair of prescription glasses.

Didn't realize this is a series. Will have to take a look!

TexasBob · Mar 21, 2020

If you have access to a usenet service such as Easynews, Giganews, Supernews, etc search for magazines or books with titles like Bushcraft and Survival.Skills, American Survival Guide, FoxFire, Disaster Survival Magazine, Survivors Edge, US Marine Corps - Survival, Evasion, and Recovery. There’s also a ton of US Army Survival/First Aid publications that are on the internet in PDF format. And you just need to search for them. If anything you might learn a few skills to use if you find yourself outdoors or lost and have to find you way or live without access to the normal day to day needs like water, food or a toilet. :rolleyes:

Everyone should know how to handle basic First Aids needs!

Rockzilla · Mar 21, 2020

Or....check here
https://www.scribd.com/search?content_type=tops&page=1&query=prepping&language=1

or goto Scridb.com

-Rock

HRDWRK · Mar 21, 2020

I read books and have been buying old collections of books about details from everything from gardening/canning/skill training..

However I believe every firearm owner should own at least one book on the maintenance and basic repair of every firearm they own..

You will not find the info on the internet if it's down!

Also you should have the top 10 to 15 parts needed for those repairs.

boss281 · Mar 21, 2020

I'm in the middle of writing an alien invasion novel, and picked up a book on prepping to help research it. Fascinating. So I picked up another, then another, then started stashing stuff in the basement. Then I picked up another...the book is coming along too! Which reminds me, I need to interview some folks one of these days (Blackhawk aviator and crew chief would be nice, A-10 pilot, any US special operations forces esp SEAL or AF Combat Controller, Vietnam vet that had interactions with "tunnel rats"...I should post another thread. It's a pretty big list.).

jimbobborg · Mar 21, 2020

The entire Foxfire collection, including anniversary editions, https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Col...&keywords=foxfire+books&qid=1584826213&sr=8-1

65by55 · Mar 21, 2020

The SAS survival handbook and The SAS urban survival handbook by John Wiseman.

They are very good books for learning how to improvise on the go and in the wild. It is the book you go to after the MRE's run out !

Huckleberry · Mar 21, 2020

Great Living in Grubby Times series

USAF SERE PDF
https://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/af_a3/publication/afh10-644/afh10-644.pdf

FM 21-76 US Army Survival Manual

US Army Ranger Handbook

scout6 · Mar 21, 2020

https://www.amazon.com/Public-Works...70&s=books&sprefix=public+work,aps,172&sr=1-6

B/w photos and b/w illustrations. A very detailed book giving lots of information on subject matter needed for self-reliant living. Details include first aid and survival, tools and construction, health, food, nutrition, etc. Even though some information is out-of-date. this is still a good reference guide.

The link is the first one that came up on search, much lower priced options available. This thing is an encyclopedia of knowledge.

Alphabrew · Mar 21, 2020

The Latter Day Saints manual is good, and free as a .pdf

https://www.ldsavow.com/PrepManualGeneral.html

Jollyllama · Mar 22, 2020

The Fox Fire series is excellent. Not so much about prepping, but firsthand knowledge gathered by students in the 1960s (IIRC) from old timers living the old way and written down. Lots of information. How to build a structure with primitive tools, how to make soap, how to make moonshine...anything Georgian mountain folks have been doing, it’s in there. Think it is a 12 book series. It has great pictures and is not only entertaining but wildly informative.

StantonCree · Mar 22, 2020

1-1 love this stupid book. Bought it for $2 at Ollies a few years ago while in Pa

Alphabrew · Mar 23, 2020

Sensible Prepper is a good YouTube Chanel as long as you have internet

https://m.youtube.com/user/SensiblePrepper

6-Pack · Mar 23, 2020

I haven’t received this yet, but I ordered it last year. It’s now printed and I got a message from Amazon that it’ll be delivered tomorrow. The Medical Prepper’s Handbook:
https://www.amazon.com/Preppers-Medical-Handbook-William-Forgey/dp/1493046942/

I did read “The Survival Medicine Handbook” (related book by a different author) and it was pretty good. Many people forget that disease killed more people in the Civil War than bullets. Medical care is a necessity under any SHTF event.

gamer_jim · Mar 23, 2020

ToolAA said:
All three books in the series were pretty good. It’s a fictional work without any real technical knowledge, but the author does a good job of bringing the problems faced by early Americans into a modern context.
For example it gives the reader some pause when you have to contemplate how you might have to function in the world, with a painful tooth abscess or replace a broken pair of prescription glasses.

Yes, this!

Hopefully not spoiling too much here:

The part that really gave me pause was about communication and information. Because the town had the ability to see what was around them they could prepare for those events. Had they not had word to set up defensively the results would have been much different.

I think this can apply to our current situation: What good is prepping water, tp and food for your family if you don't get word that bands of thugs are coming?

Another thought that came from that series: if you do prep, how much are you willing to share with your neighbor?

I especially liked the explanation of the world-wide supply chain. I think that's going to be a real eye-opener for people after this coronavirus event.

geda · Mar 23, 2020

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Survival-Manual-Surviving-Economic/dp/9870563457

You are not going to end up living in the woods. Worst case we will look like a third world county would have looked like in 11/2019. I liked this book, it is a first hard account from some hard times in Argentina. There are is bit of content from the book on the author's blog.

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